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More modifications for me.
New 30% bigger all aluminium radiator.
New after market electric fan controlled by switch on the dash.
New Flux Capacitor! - Makes it go better.
I had been using Keith's air con fan mod after removing the viscous fan - but it was not quite up to the job on more taxing routes - a couple of fans the wrong side of the air con rad and working on a standard usually mud encrusted LR rad were always going to struggle and it was over heating in slow uphill situations. So treated myself to this - as recommended by the LZ experts!
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and you cannot safely use it for emergency braking in the event of main brake failure.You can with diagnostics though
I am also pretty sure you can get it to come on a degree while car is still moving, but would have to re read all the EPB stuff.
J
Electric door lock warmers already exist or they did before door locks ceased to exist.Yeah, right up there with electronic park-brake. What next? Door handle warmers?
So in that case surely it's technically illegal?and you cannot safely use it for emergency braking in the event of main brake failure.
and you cannot safely use it for emergency braking in the event of main brake failure.
So in that case surely it's technically illegal?
To my mind that means the EPB may comply with the construction and use regs that require, or used to require, an emergency brake in case of failure of the main braking system whist the vehicle is moving at speed. However, since it requires the EPB electronics to be functional, that may be disputable as vehicle electronics are not known for their reliability.
So the epb can decelerate the car even if it loses communication with everything, but I don't understand what it means by 'under the driver's control '. Surely the only effective brake control the driver has then is pressing the button, as it only reaches that point with electronic and hydraulic failure? Unless I misunderstood the document.
So your scenario means you have a total hydraulic failure and an electronic failure at the same time?To my mind that means the EPB may comply with the construction and use regs that require, or used to require, an emergency brake in case of failure of the main braking system whist the vehicle is moving at speed. However, since it requires the EPB electronics to be functional, that may be disputable as vehicle electronics are not known for their reliability.
@marjon
So the epb can decelerate the car even if it loses communication with everything, but I don't understand what it means by 'under the driver's control '. Surely the only effective brake control the driver has then is pressing the button, as it only reaches that point with electronic and hydraulic failure? Unless I misunderstood the document.
To be fair, the last 4 or 5 cars I've bought with cabled handbrakes, the handbrakes have been close to useless.To my mind that means the EPB may comply with the construction and use regs that require, or used to require, an emergency brake in case of failure of the main braking system whist the vehicle is moving at speed. However, since it requires the EPB electronics to be functional, that may be disputable as vehicle electronics are not known for their reliability.
@marjon
I hope that’s not a FL in hereOr just...
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Perfectly possible since JLR brake lines rust out in as little a 5 years.So your scenario means you have a total hydraulic failure and an electronic failure at the same time?
J
I don't see the fact that clever designers can no longer make a functioning manual handbrake as being a good reason to introduce more complicated electronics.One small benefit to epb is that in the event of an accident, the car can apply the handbrake to stop the car rolling once the accident is over
Automate and codify.. it's the mantra pushed everywhere. Doesn't matter if the best thing to do, it's modernisation so it must be doneI don't see the fact that clever designers can no longer make a functioning manual handbrake as being a good reason to introduce more complicated electronics.
Like cupholdersThey have gone epb as it takes up less space in the center console leaving more room for unnecessary gadgets and tech.
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